The 8th International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2020) will be held during December 15-18, 2020 at Ashoka University, India. The conference will be jointly organized by Ashoka University and NIT Delhi. BDA 2020 provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their original research results, practical experiences and thoughts on big data from different perspectives including storage models, data access, computing paradigms, analytics, information sharing and privacy, redesigning mining algorithms, open issues, and future research trends.

BDA 2020 invites original, technically sound, high-quality research papers proposing novel solutions addressing the problems related to big data analytics as well as case studies and practical experiences with big data. Major topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:

Analytics as a Service

Architectural Design for Big Data

Big Data Analytics for Governance

Big Data Applications in Domains

Conceptual/cognitive/programming Models for Big data analytics

Clustering of Big Data

Data Fusion and Multi Modal Analytics

Data Models for Big Data Analytics

Domain-specific Analytics

Index Structures for Big Data Analytics

Interaction Design for Exploratory Analytics

Machine Learning techniques for Big Data

Large-scale recommendation systems and graph analysis

Model Discovery from Big Data

Natural Language Processing for Big Data

NoSQL and non-standard Data Models

Physical Data Organization for Big Data

Predictive Modeling

Rule Mining from Big Data

Scalability and Performance issues

Security, privacy and legal issues specific to big data

Semantics of Big Data

Streaming Data Analytics

Summarization and Materialized views

Topic Modelling

Unstructured and Semi-structured Data Mining

Visual Analytics

Publication: All past BDA proceedings have been published by Springer’s LNCS series. The proceedings of BDA 2020 will be published in Springer’s LNCS series (pending approval).